The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. As of today (2024-04-26), Lydall's share price is $62.09. Lydall's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2021 was $15.26. Hence, Lydall's PB Ratio of today is 4.07.
Warning Sign:
Lydall Inc stock PB Ratio (=4.07) is close to 10-year high of 4.07
The historical rank and industry rank for Lydall's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
LDL'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.36 Med: 1.81 Max: 4.07
Current: 4.07
During the past 13 years, Lydall's highest PB Ratio was 4.07. The lowest was 0.36. And the median was 1.81.
LDL's PB Ratio is not ranked
in the Industrial Products industry.
Industry Median: 1.9
vs LDL: 4.07
During the past 12 months, Lydall's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 7.00% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -10.80% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 1.40% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 8.00% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Lydall was 23.90% per year. The lowest was -16.40% per year. And the median was 6.60% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Lydall PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Lydall's PB Ratio can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Lydall's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Lydall's PB Ratio Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Lydall's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Lydall's PB Ratio falls into.
Lydall PB Ratio Calculation
The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks.
Lydall's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
A closely related ratio is called Price-to-Tangible-Book. The difference between Price-to-Tangible-Book and PB Ratio is that book value other than intangibles are used in the calculation.
The PB Ratio works the best for the businesses that earn most of their profit from their assets, e.g. banks and insurance companies.
Be Aware
Some businesses have very light assets, such as software companies or insurance agencies. The PB Ratio does not work well for these companies. Some companies even have negative equity, so the PB Ratio cannot be applied to them.
Lydall PB Ratio Related Terms
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Lydall Inc, through its subsidiaries, designs and manufactures specialty engineered filtration media, industrial thermal insulating solutions, automotive thermal and acoustical barriers, medical filtration media and devices. The company's products are primarily sold directly to customers through an internal sales force and distributed via common carrier. Its reportable segments were Performance Materials, Technical Nonwovens and Thermal Acoustical Solutions. It derives most of its revenues from the United States of America.
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